Reviews tagging 'Fire/Fire injury'

Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone by Benjamin Stevenson

177 reviews

teelii's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

I loved this book! It was written so well! When is the last time you found a murder mysterious actually funny? My favorite thing about this was the main character constantly breaking the fourth wall and talking to us directly. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Bullying, Child death, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Suicide, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Abandonment

s_green217's review against another edition

mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Drug abuse and Suicide

sop17hie's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

Big warning for INJURY DETAIL. I skipped ahead a bit

This worked well as an audiobook, because the narrator's voice is already so strong. 

I did get a bit lost, kept forgetting Andrew exists.

I'd read it again just to note down who everyone in the family has killed.

Lots of dark humour, good to be reading an Aussie novel.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Drug use, Infidelity, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Drug abuse, Infertility, Torture, Police brutality, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Addiction

linakats20's review against another edition

3.25

This was my first time reading a murder mystery. The narration tone/voice that the writer used would have been better suited as an audiobook choice for me; at times I was quite confused by Ern’s side conversations/narrations. The plot wasn’t terrible, and although I hadn’t figured out all of the details, I did figure out the main murderer. I recognize that this genre is meant to lead you  in all directions with dates, times, locations, and an unruly number of details, but at times I just found this extremely slow to read through and confusing to picture for myself… putting the book into “mark as DNF” territory. I’m glad to be able to say I finished this one, but that doesn’t mean it wasn’t a struggle at times! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Murder, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Child death, Infidelity, Suicide, Grief, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Addiction and Vomit

hannahsheil's review against another edition

adventurous funny mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

(2.5)

I just couldn’t get into the style of writing (I.e., breaking the fourth wall, cliches out the wazoo, punny and sarcastic quips, etc.) and a lot of it felt like he had to really really spell it all out for the reader, too much for even a mystery novel where everything gets revealed at the end.

I do think it’s unique that they’re not all bloodthirsty, intentional murderers, but that everyone HAS killed someone, even by accident or whatever — unique way of changing up the content from the title.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Child death, Confinement, Death, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Vomit, Police brutality, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Drug abuse, Infertility, Infidelity, Medical content, and Medical trauma

Minor: Chronic illness and Car accident

denika_reads's review against another edition

adventurous funny lighthearted mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

This is not like my usual books and I read it for a book club. I really enjoyed the light hearted feeling compared to my usual books, and did laugh out loud quite a few times! 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Addiction, Suicide, Torture, Kidnapping, Death of parent, Murder, and Fire/Fire injury

rachelerader's review against another edition

adventurous funny mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Addiction, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Gun violence, Suicide, Vomit, Kidnapping, Grief, Car accident, Murder, and Fire/Fire injury

mazzreads86's review against another edition

funny mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body horror, Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Infidelity, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Kidnapping, Grief, Car accident, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Animal cruelty

kld8338's review against another edition

mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Murder, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Child death and Suicide

Minor: Death of parent

alicroz34's review

dark funny mysterious medium-paced

3.5

Pretty fun! I will say, for a book so intent on calling out its own use of tropes, getting someone into a "catatonic confession" state should probably have been justified. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Child abuse and Child death